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How To: Write Fundraising Auction Item Descriptions

Greater Giving

When written well, these will help you generate excitement, entice attendees to bid, and increase the funds you generate from your event. Indicate comparison (competitive, superior, ultimate, etc.) Rodriguez, the generous donor of this item, proposed to his now wife on this same cruise two decades ago.

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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a result, the focus has been writing grant proposals rather than appealing for individual support. The lack of trust between NGOs and local Kenyans and the expectancy that NGOs are funded from outside Kenya are the key reasons for limited local fundraising towards NGO in Kenya. Why is that?

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6 Tips For CRM Budget Planning

TechImpact

Create a timeline of your nonprofit’s budget planning process define goals for your CRM adoption and implementation starting from final project approval and working backwards to bringing a proposal to your board. By starting with an end-goal, your can determine what might need to happen just before reaching the next goal, and the next.

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The Why and the How of Updating Your Nonprofit Bylaws

Get Fully Funded

If you think your current bylaws are seriously lacking, ask peer organizations to share their bylaws for comparison. Step #5: Revise the bylaws with proposed language. Share with the full Board the proposed changes. The post The Why and the How of Updating Your Nonprofit Bylaws appeared first on Get Fully Funded.

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Data Digest — Maps, Trends, and a Social Progress Index

Tech Soup

Philanthrocapitalists Propose a Social Progress Index. This index aims to go beyond economic measurement to also measure access to food, shelter, education, health care, economic opportunity, and environmental stability in conjunction, and in comparison, with GDP. Five trending Big Data technologies are also identified.

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Is There Any Grant Money?

Tech Soup

And this increase is of vital importance given the uncertain future of government funding levels. Be aware that grant funding is available. Private foundations continue to be a funding source for most respondents; 81 percent of respondents reported that they received awards from private foundations. percent in 2017 and by 6.0

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Workplace Giving Software: What Nonprofits Need to Know

Nonprofits Source

With any proposal, you need to explain why implementing your suggestion benefits whomever you’re persuading. Your nonprofit’s matching gift software can help you here, as you can easily search for other businesses and find comparisons. For example, let’s say an employee wants to advocate for a matching gift program. Benefits breakdown.